{"id":10514,"date":"2012-06-26T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10514"},"modified":"2012-06-26T14:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:58:33","slug":"black-bloc-activist-sentenced-for-g20-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10514","title":{"rendered":"Black Bloc Activist Sentenced for G20 Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Hundert, a pre-eminent member of the so-called \u201cG20 ringleaders,\u201d was sentenced to 13 + months in prison Tuesday.<\/strong>
\nJayme Poisson – 26 Jaune, 2012 – Toronto News<\/p>\n

Hundert is the last to be sentenced out of a group of six who struck a deal with the Crown last November. The half-dozen pleaded guilty to counselling to commit mischief. In exchange for their pleas, 11 co-accused had their charges dropped.<\/p>\n

Hundert pleaded guilty to a further charge of counselling to obstruct police.<\/p>\n

Addressing the court during an impassioned speech on the two year anniversary of the G20 summit, the 31-year-old activist accepted he did break the law but offered no apologies. He said that although he made the decision, he felt he was \u201cbullied\u201d into making his guilty plea because one member of the initial group of co-accused was facing deportation, and others were much younger.<\/p>\n

Hundert said it was \u201cridiculous\u201d to think his prosecution wasn\u2019t politically motivated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think every time someone behind the bench or Crown suggests it\u2019s not, it puts the whole system in disrepute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Raucous cheers and stomping could be heard from an overflow room packed with about 100 supporters. They were not allowed in the courtroom because of disruptions during previous hearings.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Jason Miller addressed the court briefly. The sentence, he said, was necessary to denounce the organization of violence during the G20 weekend and deter it from happening in the future.<\/p>\n

Hundert, as well as other accused, met to plan protests against the G20 and encouraged property damage during the summit, according to an agreed statement of facts.<\/p>\n

Hundert\u2019s lawyer, John Norris, said the accusations against his client are but a \u201cnarrow band\u201d of the work he does building communities. Norris said he believed, in the future, Hundert would be involved in more causes making those communities better.<\/p>\n

Justice Lloyd Budzinsky said that even though Hundert was in custody when black-clad protesters took to the streets, smashing windows and lighting police cars on fire, he promoted the use of violence. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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